20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their ploughshares, mattocks, axes and sickles[a] sharpened. 21 The price was two-thirds of a shekel[b] for sharpening ploughshares and mattocks, and a third of a shekel[c] for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.

22 So on the day of the battle not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:20 Septuagint; Hebrew ploughshares
  2. 1 Samuel 13:21 That is, about 8 grams
  3. 1 Samuel 13:21 That is, about 4 grams